NYC Day Three
There was another long sleep in this morning; that’s what happens when you fill your evenings with good food and drink. The day then started off with an intense debate between Marcos and Ali about capitalism, corporate responsibility and marketing. I think there were other topics touched on but I tuned out after the first half and hour; I was too busy catching up on the news back home and reading about the demise of the Murdoch empire in an old copy of ‘New York’ that Marcos had lying around.
Today’s window shopping included a stop at Tiffany’s, where Ali bought a beautiful solid silver necklace. At a reasonable price too. Not like the $1.3 million dollar necklace we gawked at in one of the showcases. At the corner of 53rd Street & 6th Ave we saw half a dozen firetrucks with their ladders up the side of the Hilton hotel there. We stuck around for a bit, not to watch the fire (or lack thereof more like it) but to enjoy the best street vendor hot dog ever. Big hot dog, all the toppings you want, friendly service and all for two dollars. Yup, two bucks. Nice. Then we topped the afternoon off with a walk back to Marcos’ place via Central Park
You can’t come to New York without doing several New York things. We had a hot dog from a street vendor earlier and I covered the ‘have something stolen’ ground on day one so next on the list was to see a Broadway play. We had already decided on seeing a funny musical called ’The Producers’ and had tickets waiting for us at the box office. It was indeed a very funny musical and was probably one of the funniest theatre productions I’ve seen to date. The story is good and the music is catchy. Even Marcos enjoyed it, which is probably something that should be put in the reviews given that it’s typically hard to impress him.
After the show we were starved so we hopped the subway to head back uptown with the intent of going to a good sushi place by Marcos’ place. Instead we wondered around E 64th Street and 1st Ave looking for it. Since we were unsure of the actual address of the desired sushi restaurant, we settled on another one, which turned out to be only a block from where we wanted to be but was of inferior quality and service. And then another post midnight turn in.
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 05:01 Posted in General
